Three of the world’s largest storage device manufacturers have joined the Linux Foundation, a non-profit organisation that manages the development of the open source OS.

SanDisk, Seagate and Western Digital will contribute their expertise in disk and flash drives to Linux and support the Foundation with donations which could range from $20,000 to $500,000 per year, although the exact amount hasn’t been specified.

The Foundation has also signed up US semiconductor manufacturer Adapteva and software development hosting service GitHub.